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Mr. Aaron Yip is an Assistant Vice President of Federal Insurance Company and the Regional Manager for Chubb Specialty Insurance (CSI), South East Asia, a department within Federal Insurance Company, Singapore.
The department is responsible for all specialty financial and liability insurance products for South East Asia, such as Directors & Officers Liability Insurance, Non Profit Organisation Management liability, Professional Liability, Commercial Crime, Kidnap & Ransom and Bankers Blanket Bond for financial institutions.
He has worked in specialty insurance lines in Singapore and Malaysia since 1995 and began his career as a specialty insurance broker, before joining Federal Insurance Company in 2001. He has contributed articles and conducted seminars on Specialty Insurance and is presently also a lecturer with the Singapore College of Insurance on liability courses. |
Lloyd's of London (Asia) Pte Ltd
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Simon Wilson was appointed Lloyd's General Manager for Singapore in January 2007. He is also Managing Director of Lloyd's Asia (Pte) Ltd. and General Representative of Lloyd's underwriters in Singapore.
Before his appointment, Simon spent three years developing and leading the Intelligence Division (WMID) for Lloyd's Worldwide Markets in London. Simon was also heavily involved in the development of the business model and plan for the new Lloyd's China Reinsurance platform, based in Shanghai.
Prior to joining Lloyd's, Simon worked as a management consultant within the Specialist Financial Services area of Deloitte Consulting. During this time he worked with clients from across the sector on numerous projects involving the development and implementation of their international strategy and the development of future state operating models. Simon holds a Bachelors degree in Law and a Masters degree in Management. |
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Ben Liang is the ReMetrics team leader for Benfield Asia. Ben has over eight years of experience in the property and casualty insurance industry with majority of that focused on reinsurance. His experience in the reinsurance sector includes analyses of workers' compensation, property per risk & cat, medical malpractice, professional liability, general liability, and commercial auto risks. Ben is also active as a technical broker assisting clients and colleagues with complex transactions.
Ben is an associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society. He is also a graduate from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in economics. |
ACE Asia Pacific
Damien Sullivan was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of ACE Asia Pacific in late 2004. In his role, Mr. Sullivan is responsible for the strategic development and the financial performance for ACE businesses located in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
Mr. Sullivan has over 25 years of experience in the insurance industry which includes senior underwriting and management positions in Europe and Asia Pacific. For more than a decade, Mr. Sullivan was with CIGNA International, a global Property & Casualty company which ACE purchased in 1999. At CIGNA, he was posted overseas to London where he managed their Marine Underwriting and Risk Management operations in the UK, Europe, Canada and Latin America. He returned to this region in 1996 as the Vice President of Somerset Asia Pacific, before moving on to Liberty Mutual as President of their Australian Branch.
Prior to moving to Singapore, Mr. Sullivan was the Chief Executive Officer for ACE's operations in Australia and New Zealand, and Regional Head of their Property & Casualty business.
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Kenrick Law joined the reinsurance industry in 1996 with Swiss Re Zurich. After received extensive training on various reinsurance products in both Switzerland and South Africa, he returned to Hong Kong in 1998 as a casualty treaty underwriter. In 2000, he was promoted to be responsible for the casualty treaty business for the Greater China Region. He then relocated to Singapore in 2003 to manage the Casualty Treaty portfolio of South East Asia. In July 2006, he returned to Hong Kong to head up the Casualty Treaty Underwriting Desk for Asia for Swiss Re.
Since March this year, Kenrick heads the Casualty Underwriting in Asia Capital Reinsurance Group.
His expertise includes Motor, Personal Accident, Workmen's Compensation and General Liability. Kenrick participated in a Motor conference in Japan in 2003 where motor experts from different countries across Asia exchanged opinions on Motor insurance. |
During his years in Asia, Kenrick has represented Swiss Re and the reinsurance industry in various insurance associations, e.g. the Convenor of the Liability Subcommittee of Reinsurers' Forum in Hong Kong, and member of Motor committee in Malaysia.
Kenrick holds a Master Degree in Economics from University of Toronto (Canada) as well as Bachelor's Degree in Economics from McGill University (Canada). |
Primus graduated in accounting and was a public accountant with one of the big five international accounting firms in Canada. Following his return to Singapore in 1990, he joined the then Insurance Corporation of Singapore and was involved in negotiation and settlement of major claims for property, casualty and financial risks insurances, including management of complex Professional Indemnity claims.
In 1992, Primus joined American Home Assurance Company (otherwise known as AIG). His exposure included claims, underwriting and marketing. He also headed the Financial Lines Division that focused on development and underwriting of Professional Indemnity, Directors & Officers' Liability, Banker's Blanket Bond and Crime insurances.
Primus joined Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) in 1997 and currently heads up Business Development, Financial & Professional Risk and Benefits Solution. He is personally involved in the design, placement of major insurance programmes. In addition, he also oversees the servicing of major clients to ensure that the highest standard is delivered.
Willis (Singapore) Pte Ltd
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Aruno Rajaratnam is currently the Managing Director of FINEX, Asia for Willis Insurance Brokers. She was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Singapore Bar in 1975. She is also a Chartered Insurance Practitioner conferred by the Chartered Insurance Institute of United Kingdom in 1984.
She has extensive industry experience having worked as a claims manager, underwriter, loss adjuster, product development consultant, broker and managing director of a reinsurance company. She has written several articles for the newspapers and trade magazines, co-authored the textbook for the Certificate of General Insurance and contributed towards the book "From Conformance to Performance - Best Corporate Governance for Asian Companies" by Mak Yuen Teen.
She is also a well known speaker and is often invited as a keynote speaker at several Asian Corporate Governance and D&O conferences. |
Amlin Singapore Pte Ltd
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Said Khan is the Cargo Underwriter at Amlin Singapore Pte Ltd, underwriting on behalf of Syndicate 2001 at Lloyd’s of London. The syndicate is a market leader in a wide range of insurance and reinsurance classes – aviation, international property and casualty and marine.
Said joined Amlin in October 2008 after having spent two years with another Lloyd’s Syndicate. Prior to that he was with AIG for 8 years – 4 years as a Cargo Underwriter and 4 years as the Marine Loss Control Officer for Asia Pac.
Prior to AIG, Said was a surveyor and loss adjustor for 10 years and before that he sailed for 5 years on foreign-going vessels serving mainly on board containers and tankers.
Said has a Certificate of Competency – Deck Officer Foreign-Going – from Marine Department Singapore, a Diploma in Nautical Studies awarded by Singapore Polytechnic, a Diploma in Marine Surveying(Distinction) awarded by Int’l Institute of Marine Surveyors & Greenwich University & National Sea Training Centre, UK and a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) awarded by La Trobe University, Australia. |
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Mr Colin Lincoln is an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Chartered Insurer. He is currently the Regional Underwriter Marine Liabilities - Asia with QBE Insurance (International) Limited. He has been in the insurance industry for more than 30 years most of which was spent in Marine Insurance. His area of expertise is mainly in Marine Cargo although he is currently involved in Marine Liability Insurance as well. His regional responsibilities spans across South East Asia where he oversees the Company’s marine operations in this region. He has been a speaker in seminars organised by the Association of Banks in Singapore and has conducted marine insurance courses both locally and overseas. He is a part-time lecturer with the Singapore College of Insurance, a role that he has performed for more than 15 years. |
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Mr. Douglas Lum holds a degree in Actuarial Science and he brings with him over 15 years of experience from the North American and Asian markets in both the direct insurance and reinsurance industry. He originally worked in actuarial positions dealing with valuation, product development and pricing, and subsequently held various lead positions in accident and health and special risks reinsurance before uprooting from Toronto, Canada and settling in Singapore in 1998 with another international reinsurer. Douglas joined Allianz Reinsurance in the latter part of 2002 as the head of business development within the Life and Health division, and has recently taken on the role as General Manager of the Life and Health operation.
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Koh Hoe Shin joined American Home Assurance Group (AIG) as the Head of Personal Lines Department, handling a portfolio of $180 million and is in charge of 21 staffs within the department. He is responsible for both the top and bottom line for the Personal Lines business e.g. Auto, Personal property and Extended Warranty.
He first started as a Trainer in AIA in 1997 after his graduation in National University of Singapore (NUS). In AIA, he is the head of training team and was responsible to groom and build a team of trainers, executing on the development of Sales Management Program for Agency Leaders and Sales Oriented program for Agent.
His expertise includes all personal lines products and restructure and rebuild administrative processes and assist the administrative team to improve work efficiency. He is also attached to AIA Brunei to assist the local GM in training his agency executives in agency sales and recruitment activities. Hoe Shin is also a committee member for Product Development and assisted the Local GM in launching new products for the agency force. He achieved the best superintendent award from VP Agency during the year 2002.
During his years in Asia, Hoe Shin travelled widely within AIG group and was promoted to Vice President for AIG Philippines. He identified and developed homeowner product for agency force that sold more than 1800 cases within 5 months of launch.
Hoe Shin holds a Degree in Business Administration from National University of Singapore as well as merits certificates from Singapore College of Insurance. |
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Handles various professional liability classes of insurance (including Professional Indemnity Insurance, Directors and Officers Liability Insurance, Medical Malpractice Insurance, Information Communication and Technology Insurance and etc) since 2001. Francis is responsible for the overall PI book of business of QBE Insurance (International) Ltd, Asia regional operation. In addition to underwriting expertise he provides technical support to the claims department on
PI claims issues.
Francis graduated with Degree in Business Studies (Economic and Finance) and is a current member of the Chartered Insurance Institute and Singapore
Insurance Institute |
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